Ernest Whitman

Born: 1893-02-21

Ernest Whitman was born on February 21, 1893, in Fort Smith, Arkansas. He was a Negro actor, known for Road to Zanzibar (1941), Cabin in the Sky (1943) and The Return of Frank James (1940). He died on August 5, 1954, in Hollywood, California, of a heart attack.


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Gone with the Wind

as Carpetbagger's Friend (uncredited)
Released: 1939-12-15

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical...

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The Lost Weekend

as Black Man Talking to Himself (uncredited)
Released: 1945-11-29

Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the...

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The Return of Frank James

as Pinky
Released: 1940-08-10

Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.

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Jesse James

as Pinkie
Released: 1939-01-14

After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank...

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Santa Fe Trail

as Black Man in Barn (uncredited)
Released: 1940-12-20

As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B....

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Stormy Weather

as Jim Europe (uncredited)
Released: 1943-07-21

The relationship between an aspiring dancer and a popular songstress provides a retrospective of...

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The Prisoner of Shark Island

as Buck
Released: 1936-02-28

After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of...

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Among the Living

as Pompey
Released: 1941-12-12

A mentally unstable man, who has been kept in isolation for years, escapes and causes trouble...

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The Sun Shines Bright

as Pleasant 'Uncle Plez' Woodford
Released: 1953-05-02

With the election approaching, a judge in a Southern town at the turn of the 20th century is...

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Castle on the Hudson

as Alexander '8 Ball' Hamilton (uncredited)
Released: 1940-02-17

A hardened crook behind bars comes up against a reform-minded warden.

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Cabin in the Sky

as Jim Henry
Released: 1943-03-24

When compulsive gambler Little Joe Jackson dies in a drunken fight, he awakens in purgatory,...

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Third Finger, Left Hand

as Sam
Released: 1940-10-11

Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male...

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Road to Zanzibar

as Whiteface
Released: 1941-04-11

Stranded in Africa, Chuck and his pal Fearless have comic versions of jungle adventures,...

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Daughter of Shanghai

as Sam Blike
Released: 1937-12-17

A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal alien smuggling ring.

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Daughter of Shanghai

as Sam Blike (uncredited)
Released: 1937-12-17

A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal alien smuggling ring.

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Buck Benny Rides Again

as Colored Gentleman
Released: 1940-05-31

Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling...

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Congo Maisie

as Varnai
Released: 1940-01-19

Maisie gets lost in a jungle in Africa and the jungle of romance. The African jungle has snakes,...

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The Get-Away

as Moose Jones
Released: 1941-06-13

A jailed cop befriends a mob chieftain and stages a breakout with him.

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3: The Dale Earnhardt Story

as Pit Crowd
Released: 2004-12-11

A biopic of NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt, Sr., documenting the driver's career from his earliest...

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Tell No Tales

as Slab Griffin (uncredited)
Released: 1939-06-12

A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could...

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6,000 Enemies

as Willie (uncredited)
Released: 1939-06-09

A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery...

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The Green Pastures

as Pharaoh
Released: 1936-08-01

God, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah's Ark, are...

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Maryland

as Clarence "Dogface" Reems
Released: 1940-07-19

A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do...

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My Brother Talks to Horses

as Mr. Mordecai
Released: 1947-02-04

Living with his family in Baltimore, 9-year-old Lewie Penrose claims that he can converse with...

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Mystery Sea Raider

as First Fisherman
Released: 1940-10-26

June McCarthy has unwittingly aided an undercover Nazi naval officer with acquiring a "mother...

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Blonde Savage

as Tonga
Released: 1947-11-22

An expedition into the deep jungle discovers a native tribe led by a tall Caucasian blonde woman.

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Banjo

as Uncle Jasper
Released: 1947-05-15

Family drama about a young farm girl, suddenly orphaned, who must give up her beloved dog when...

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They Gave Him a Gun

as Roustabout (uncredited)
Released: 1937-05-07

With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use.

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Pacific Liner

as Professor - Black Stoker (uncredited)
Released: 1939-01-06

The S. S. Arcturus sails from Shanghai to San Francisco, and Dr. Jim Craig takes the post of...

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The Pittsburgh Kid

as Feets Johnson
Released: 1941-08-29

Unable to sign boxer Joe Louis to movie contract, Republic Pictures had to make do with the...

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Half-Pint Pygmy

as Pygmy (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1948-08-07

George and Junior hunt for the world's smallest pygmy.

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Safari

as Witch doctor
Released: 1940-06-14

Millionaire Baron de Courland and his fiancée Linda Stewart employ Jim Logan as a guide for...

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White Hunter

as Abdi
Released: 1936-11-25

Safari guide Capt. Clark Rutledge is hired by the man Michael Varek who was responsible for his...

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